Matthew Perry Case: Assistant Kenneth Iwamasa Sentenced to 41 Months — Global Coverage May 28

Germany

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Continental Europe: individual responsibility and systemic interrogation · 3 of 12 countries

Berlin Cuts Through Perry Case with Focus on Individual Criminal Liability: Iwamasa's Conviction Seen as Illustration of Abuse of Authority and Dependence Surrounding Vulnerable Celebrities

Canada

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Anglophone West: judicial signal and networks of complicity · 4 of 12 countries

Ottawa sees a Canadian face of an American tragedy: Matthew Perry, born in Montreal, taken by a network of complicity that US federal justice has just closed.

United States

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Anglophone West: judicial signal and networks of complicity · 4 of 12 countries

Washington D.C. sends strong signal against ketamine dealers as Matthew Perry case reveals organized network of enablers

France

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Continental Europe: individual responsibility and systemic interrogation · 3 of 12 countries

Paris Deciphers Perry's Case as a Symptom of a Chain of Individual Responsibilities Surrounding a Vulnerable Celebrity, Where Intimate Proximity to the Star Allowed for Grave and Repeated Abuse.

India

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Asia and Gulf: analytical distance and institutional challenges · 5 of 12 countries

New Delhi sees this conviction as a sign of an extended criminal responsibility that goes beyond just traffickers, extending to the close friends of American celebrities.

Italy

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Continental Europe: individual responsibility and systemic interrogation · 3 of 12 countries

Rome holds up the figure of the assistant as the central cog in a fatal machine, revealing the vulnerability of celebrities to their immediate entourage.

Mexico

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Latin America: skepticism toward justice and subaltern reading · 1 of 12 countries

Mexico questions the proportionality of the sentence: 3 years and 5 months for the death of a global celebrity, is this really the promised justice?

Pakistan

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Asia and Gulf: analytical distance and institutional challenges · 5 of 12 countries

Islamabad holds up the face of a Hollywood celebrity caught by their demons — and an accomplice entourage that almost profited from it.

Philippines

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Asia and Gulf: analytical distance and institutional challenges · 5 of 12 countries

Manila holds a lesson from the Perry case on the responsibility of those close: the convicted assistant is not an anonymous dealer, but a trusted confidant who injected the fatal dose with his own hands.

Qatar

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Asia and Gulf: analytical distance and institutional challenges · 5 of 12 countries

Doha highlights the question of penal responsibility of those who facilitate access to substances, a judicial angle that Qatari media see as revealing the flaws in the US healthcare system.

United Kingdom

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Anglophone West: judicial signal and networks of complicity · 4 of 12 countries

London reveals the Perry case as a key indicator of a drug supply system that surrounded Hollywood celebrities, with an assistant sentenced to 41 months in prison for personally injecting the fatal ketamine.

Singapore

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Anglophone West: judicial signal and networks of complicity · 4 of 12 countries

Singapore holds the entourage directly responsible for this case, beyond the celebrity of the victim.